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A few hours delightful ride from Truckee along the 
banks ol the tumbling Truckee River. 

Stopovers permitted on all Overland and Pullman tickets. 

Low side-trip rates to this gem of the Sierra — twenty-three 
miles long, thirteen wide, over two thousand feet deep. 

Excellent Hotels. Trout Fishing. Boating and Moun- 
tain Climbing. 



LOW SIDE-TRIP RATES 

Only one night ride each way from Ogden. 

Stopovers allowed on all Rail and Pullman Tickets. 

Just notify the conductor and he will arrange. 

Beautiful Scenery. Giant Geysers. 



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5IERRA NEVADA— 

Snowy Range — has been well 
renamed by John Muir the Range 
of Light; for these mountains 
lifornia are the Illumined 
Mountains. Their mural walls 
use to over thirteen thousand 
feet, and the battlemented 
and domes fifteen hun- 
dred feet higher in the clouds. 
On their flanks and lower sides 
the dark covers of the 
oniferous forests; above, the High 
amber-like in the afternoon sun ol summer, graced with 
chains mountain lak peak throated 

ranite walls are here and 

i chasms, ice-sculptured on a mighty plan. 

in sheer walls and mighty 

1 osemite N k is in the h 

in cent. alifornia, and is now easy ol access -none 

of the F rom north and south 

mite Valley Railroad at 

the latter with a journey of eighty miles up the 

ill Merced River takes the traveler to the park line 

El Portal. i miles completes the trip 

ol the Valley. Both at El Portal and in the 

m h ties to civilization the year round as 

hted hotels, with I ph and 

iummer 
for those who would be out-of-doors; and 
kin to i would rest beneath bright 

ldlh ol the Sierra, with dry, clear summer 
and sunny 1 1 

.'ell as in 
is added I 

hi, to whom 
lourna- 
'I wild flow 

which a tuneful river runs; a 
alder, willow, 



trees; where groves ol tall pines and groups ot black oaks are 
interspersed with carpets of emerald verdure made colorful by 
many varieties of wild flowers, such as lupines, daisies, golden- 
rods, mints, with green ferns in secluded dells; altogether a 
quaint, flowered landscape of trees and plain and stream with 
stretches of shrubs — the red-stemmed manzanita, the chinquapin, 
eautiful California lilac (ceanothus), gold-cup oak and 
their kind. 

Above this level, tranquil loveliness rise mile-high, cloud- 
supporting walls, grim and gray in place, here and there colored 
marvelously. Sculptured giant-fashion into domes and half- 
domes, spires and pinnacles and frowning precipices, recessed 
for dropping rivers, these Sierra walls encompass our meadow 
and make ol it the flowerful floor of a great chasm. 

Yet brook and meadow, green and flowering color of wild 
blossom, own the sunshine and are not overborne by the carved 
mountains above ; the daisy is as much at home in the Yosemite 
as is the cloud-like Half Dome at the head of the Valley. In 
waterfalls and sheer cliffs the Yosemite is supreme. Nowhere 
else do rivers thunder over clilfs a hall -mile high! nor in any 
other place have the snow-waters ol high mountains found 
such variety and beauty ol courses down mountain walls 
to unify in a valley river. Out from beneath the great snow 
mantle ol the High Sierra in spring pour the snow-waters into 
the cup ol the Yosemite; and all summer, though in lessening 
ted, flowering, lake-dotted mountains, great 
, continue to feed the streams 
ol the Valley. With li is are compensatory ad- 

i are more accessible and 
the wea 

Entering the Valli outh wall are Bridal Veil Falls. 

lop ol granite rock, white, ethereal, 

,uh1 sei i nto the treetops, appearing 

small ai ering is the impression of 

use of great 

falls is said to be the Staubbach 

raps out 

ol a smoother channel, water and is 

I he stream is full thirty 
de, and falls Inst a distance ol six hundred feel, then 

perpendicular 

distance ol three hui Mill from the chief points 

il seems to make but one plunge, and the effect. Prof. 

J. D. Whitney said, "is that ol being nine hundred feet in 

vertical height." 

Around the shoulder, behind which Bridal Veil ('reek makes 





NEVADA FALLS 




ame from their resemblance to the Duomo at Florence 
reach an elevation of 2,660 feet above the Valley floor, 
spire rising sheer and solitary for 700 feet. 

Across the Valley, and nearly opposite, is El Capitan. 
rises 3,300 feet with an apparently vertical front, and ha; 
two faces nearly at right angles with each other. It project; 
into the Valley like a buttress, and presents to the vision at 
a single glance a superficial area of more than four hundred 
acres. It is said that the stupendous bulk of El Capitan is 
such tl i seen from a certain vantage-ground at a 

distam 

e a fraternal group a little beyond El 
lance depends upon the point o 
d the I hree Graces. To the Indians 



ROCKS 

Rock faces Three Brothers from the south wall, 
nd is a splintered granite tower or spire, very slender, and 

r about 1,500 feet below its apex is nearly perpendicular. 
1 whole height above the river at its base is 3,059 feet. 

Back of this natural and majestic monument stands Sentinel 
Dome, whose storm-worn top is 4,142 feet above the Valley. 
We will walk over its conoidal or onion-like layers when we 
scale the rim of the Valley. 

We are now at the social center of Yosemite, and the hotel, 
the camps, the little postofnee, a few shops and offices, are 
gathered near here and opposite the great waterfall called after 
the Valley. 

Seen from the V. Semite Falls seem insig- 

nificant. It is, in fact, about thirty-five feet wide, and when 
the stream is full the roar can be heard all over the Valley, 
and the shock of its descent shakes windows a mile away. 
Halfway across the Valley it is hard to realize that this volume 
of white water plum ill a mile. As you walk 

toward it along the footpath it is seen between the trees, and 





HALF DOME AND GLACIER POINT 








BRIDAL VEIL FALLS 



almost an unbroken fall from its granite lip to its final impact on 
the Valley floor. And from this point the height, the volume o! 
the gray and yellow granite wall, the green herbage that frames the 
picture and the gradations of color and movements of the descending 
torrent, combine to make it the most wonderful and beautiful waterfall 
in all the world. In reality it is not one, but three. Time was, 
doubtless, when it leaped from the topmost edge of the cliff 3,000 
feet to the Valley floor, but some convulsion has shaken down the 
original front to a point halfway down and the first fall is now 1 ,600 
feet of sheer descent. Then comes a series of cascades, partly hidden 
through 600 feet downward, and a final leap, straight down, of 400 feel. 

Across the Valley the south wall thrusts out a massive shoulder, 
which is well named Glacier Point. At no other point is the wall so 
bare and sheer, and you look up, almost from its solid foot, 3,234 
feet. The flag which sometimes floats from the brink of the precipice 
is eighteen feet long, but it is seen dimly, looking no larger than a 
lady's handkerchief. An iron railing at the point protects visitors, 
and from here fireworks are often displayed. 

Once more crossing on the north or left-hand side as we go up the 
Valley, stands Yosemite Point, flanked on the east by Indian Canyon, 
so called because by means of it the Indians of early days used it 
to enter or leave the Valley. 

The Royal Arches are near the head of the Valley, in the vast 
vertical wall whose highest summit is North Dome. The arches are 
recessed curves in the granite front, very impressive because of their 
size, and made by the action of frost. Much of the rock here is 
formed in layers like the structure of an onion, and the arches are the 
fractured edges of these layers. Washington's Column is the angle 
of the wall at this point — a tower completing the massive wall at the 
very head of the Valley. 

Over against it, but looking down the Valley, stands the highest 
rock of all the region — the great South Dome, or Half Dome, as it is 
often called. It is 8,927 feet above sea-level, or nearly 5,000 feet 
above the Valley. Its mas- 
sive front is cleft straight down 
for about 2,000 feet, and the 
fractured face turned outward 
is polished by wind and storm. 
The side of the Half Dome 
turned toward the southwest 
has the curve of a great helmet 
and is so smooth and precipi- 
tous as to almost defy the 
most adventurous mountain 




"A rock piled up to t 
Conspicuous afar. 



alf Dome. It dominates the Valley 
from almost every point. 

ime to Mirror Lake, only 
lie slow sun 
il flank of the Soulh Dome — the visit should 

nirror is won- 
luccd. 

"round trip" or Meadow Drive 
on the : will do well 

i to the rim of the 

1 his 
Merced past 
I d canyon by 
Jiama Rock is 4. 

to the top of 

jioderick jus; ind the Half Dome 

iiand. 

to the hp of 
lal rim of the 

lock, where a still 
o on to the i 

rail is a 



At Union Point, 2,350 Icet above the river, all will stop and 
rest a little on a slight plateau or bench of the gigantic wall. Just 
below stands an interesting shaft of granite, well named Agassiz 
Column. Il is eighty-five feet high and its base is eroded until 
it looks too frail to support the greater bulk of rock above it. 

int is perhaps the most popular objective point in 

ion. On the way you visit Vernal and Nevada Falls, 

returning down the short /: olumn and Sentinel 

Glacier Point is especially remarkable for its commanding 

positio: height and the unspeakable sublimity 

rocks. 1 here is a comfortable 

hotel oi ill here meet parties which 

I he projecting rocks 

oint are but a few yards from the hotel. It 

■ mi the top of the jutting rock down 

to the floor of the Valley, and a pebble dropped from this point 

will touch nothing until it strikes the talus, 3,000 feet straight 

down. I he hotel is dwarfed to a hut, stately trees are mere 

■iien seem dots on the Valley floor. 

Much of the northern rim of the Valley lies before you on 

on which you stand, with a background of 

ok; here Yosemite Falls, 

posite are the Royal Arches, the North 

1, the Basket Dome; Mirror Lake is but a 

"ii ; the great fractured face of the South 

Dome, with the outline of its splendid helmet unmarred, is 

ond is the naked wind-swept granite of Clouds' 

ii you and the sky; far to the right is seen the 

of Liberty with Mount Lyell, Mount Starr King, 

Mount Clark and the Obelisk, while, shifting your position but 

a little, Vernal and Nevada Falls are seen shining in the dark 

n geologist called the view from 

the Point "thi ight on earth." 

Ik in the early morning to the top of Sentinel Dome, or 

down the fine trail to Illilouette Creek and its 500-foot plunge; 

the rim of the south wall via 

Lose curious crevices 

in the rocks, one lour feel several hundred feet deep. 

You will do well to lie down on your stomach, crawl to the 

into the abyss. You will never forget it. 

emite was in primeval and heard only 

its own cataracts, il was a wild flower garden of 

>, but the ne nd the trampling of 

ed the delicate beauty which once was 

all the more striking by contrast with the towering rock walls 

the garden. But the Park is still a-bloom, and an 




excursion beyond the rim of the Valley, and away from the 
frequented paths will reward the flower-lover with azaleas, wild 
roses, gilias, phloxes, lupines, potentillas, daisies, harebells, iris, 
the brodiaea and especially the calochortus, or Mariposa tulip, 
finer than any ever seen in Europe. There are five or six 
varieties, the Calochortus albus perhaps the loveliest of the 



MIRROR LAKE 

family. Muir says, "It puts the wildest mountaineer on his 
good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem 
rich, though none other existed." 

The great Valley is a tragedy of the days of wild unrest, 
when Nature's forces were destructive. Today she is covering 
the scars of the old wounding with verdure. You will be struck 
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I'lTAN 



with the persistence of life. Where 
glaciers plowed the rocky field the ten- 
derest flowers spring; where awful 
forces shattered the granite walls, are 
now swarming files of pine, fir and 
balsam. High up in granite cliffs, 
shrub, flower and tree are clinging, con- 
tent with a handful of soil, as if to 
live were enough. Life marches up 
the gorges, climbs the precipices, 
camps on the sides of splintered peaks 
and braves the storms in exposed situ- 
ations, as if just to spread soft petal, 
notched leaf, feathery plume or green 
branch were enough. You will miss 
something in the Valley if over the 
beauty and music of stream and 
waterfall, you do not see the marching 
files of plant-life conquering the granite, 
covering the nakedness, and hear tree, 
shrub and flower whisper from the 
heights of the rapture of living. It 
was all ugly once — a chaos of rock 
and denuded gorge. We might have 
wondered, we could not have admired. 
Now all is healed with bloom and 
beauty — all geological terribleness 
veiled under grass and fern, flower and 
leafy verdancy of the rejoicing trees. 
The whole movement today is toward 
beauty, and you will come away rested, 
renewed and recreated. 

For ages this great chasm, whose 
birthday none can tell, has lain in the 
heart of the Sierra, unknown and un- 
visited. It was hut yesterday, when 
men were feverishly searching these 
western mountains for gold, that Nature 
gave to the world this other treasure, 
beautiful beyond the dreams of men, 
which all may share and none be 
poorer for the sharing. 

Probably the first white man who 
saw it, was Dr. Bunnell, in the winter 
of 1849-30. His first glimpse was 
of El 1 from a long way 

off. I siding the old Bear 




YOSEMITE VALLEY FROM OLD INSPIRATION POINT 



Merced 

immense 

cliff loomed apparently to 

moun- 

I upon 

olumn 

tion," but inquirie- 

were 
it was not unti 
March, 1851, that Dr. Bun 
rock. He 

lion 
place 
lion 
in full view of 
ock I had s< 

rail, forty miles 

1 he 
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leeling 
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lazy 

luxuriously 
in quiet pools 

ripples 

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But nowhere in the 

i I transition 
and majesty to peace anc 

impressed upon the visitor than 
on the trip to Mirror Lake. A short and 
ramble by the meadows, through the woods and 

■ ply with pine-needles, whose 
balsam fills the air, brings you to the rim of this liquid looking- 

u id depths, no sound dis- 

ip of molten silver it lies in 

and gaze again into 

' lines its shore, the dark pines 

inl outline of Mt. Watkins towering in the blue 

with a fidelity that makes 

d where begins similitude. 




VERNAL FALLS 



Ann u will wish to see, is 

te Memorial Build i ated in 

the public from May to 

with n 

and with lite: initiative for 

such a 

Dr. Le ( 
in July, 1901 . He n times. 

His first sight of it was in 187 his trip: '"It 

in my life. . .1 

anything else so mu 

old, and ill, 

of the 
splendid cliffs and 

mdrous 
i this, and 
amid its sublil 

The charms and on you with 

each su reason of this 

subtle attraction, ha .most unconsciously, to 

what might be tern;: ir when 

the outdoor lo them they throw off the thrall 

life, leave behind them the burdi d turning their 

d this Golden 
Stale, ihe call of the wild. Here, 

trampim floor of the 

>nd crag, re al night 

under the stars, muscles grow firm and 

healthful unison with d< 
and life is once again the joy that it is n 
The mountain climber goes to 

the trout in 

a hundri 

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has its own special delights and advantages. In the spring the 
melting snow turns the streams which feed the waterfalls into 
torrents, and the down-rushing water is in full volume; on every 
side are rivul i berating waterfalls; 

in the summer the highest trails are accessible, the weather is 
delightful and the whole atmosphere has a mellow, golden quality 
that at once rests and invigorates; in the autumn the air is clear, 
outline and wonderful profile of rock and crag, of giant 
column and massive dome, stands out as though etched against 
lly fading through a myriad shades of 
green and red and bronze — it is the artist's paradise of color; 
and in winter, with the Valley floor hidden beneath a snowy 
cover, with red snow plants thrusting their way through the white 
surface of flame, with every tree and plant drooping 

gracefully under its wintry burden, with marvelous icicles, like 
great stalact: from tower and pinnacle and over- 

arching rock, who shall say which is the best time to visit this 
wondrous garden of the Sierra? 

mite was once literally the "happy hunting-grounds" of 
the Indians where they realized on earth what the "good Indian" 
usually only expected after death. There are not many of them 
left today, though the valley is still the home of a few living in 
the primitive fashion of their ancestors. Ah-wah-nee was the 
name they gave to the valley, and to themselves the tribal name 
of Ah-wah-nee-chees. Yosemite or Yo-sem-i-te, was the "de- 
stroyer." Thus was the grizzly bear known, and so the white 
men who now own Ah-wah-nee named the great falls of 
Yosemite, known to the Indians as Cho-look. There are several 
picturesque legends of the Ah-wah-nee-chees. One of them tells 
of the giving of the title "Yosemite" to a young chieftain of the 
tribe. The Ah-wah-nee-chees, says the legend, in pride of power 
and conquest, for they were well-nigh invincible in their fertile 
and roi lorgot their gods and the Great 

Spirit who first split the heart of Kay-o-pha, the Sky Mountains, 
e it to the Ah-wah-nee-chees for their home, sent a 
black i ion the valley and nearly destroyed the tribe, 

so thai from the haunted place, 

»hes of the funeral fires and the echoes 
After the Ah-wah-nee-chees had left, the 
orns, fruits and fish and 
game, ! i entirely. Some of them took 

irth Dome, amongst the 




THE ROYAL ARCHES 



ihem the chief of the ill-starred of the Evil Wind, and it is a curious fact that a wind persistently 

Ah-wah-nee chief took to wife a Mono maiden and blows in the neighborhood of the fall when elsewhere the air is 

by her he had a son, Ten-ie-ya, after whom the canyon is named. still. 

Finally reaching man's estate, decided to return Tu-tock-ah-nu-lah was the godlike guardian of the Ah-wah- 

to his -nee, and so he gathered the remnants nee-chees and saw that they were provided with fish and deer, 

of his tribe about him and gradually the valley be< I- with nuts and berries. He dwelled in his watchtower on the 

lated. Not urn the young chieftain, hunting summit o . and was beloved by the Ah-wah-nee-chees. 

in the spring by the oo-too-yem, the SI :r, One dawn I u-tock-ah-nu-lah heard a soft voice whisper his 

found his way disputed by a mighty grizzly, hungry and angry name and on the granite dome of the southern wall he saw 

after 1 ick, the Fair One, with golden hair and azure eyes, the 

spear, but < or a broken limb of a i uldess ol the valley, who shared with him the loving care of 

exchanged blows with the great bear until finally he crushed its the Ah-wah-nee-chees. From that day the god, carried away 

skull and returned to his admiring tribe, who from that hour by love, wooed the goddess to the neglect of the tribe so that the 

called him Yo-sem-i-te, the Large Grizzly Bear. grass withered, the trees shriveled, fish failed in the streams and 

Other legends tell of Po-ho-no, the evil 01 lorsook the coverts. T ls-sa-ack did not encourage his 

Bridal Veil Falls. In the ripple of I Indians think wooing, tor she was sorry for the tribe, who prayed unavailingly 

they hear Po-ho-no's voice, and in the mocking to Tu-tock-ah-nu-lah. Finally, she prayed herself to the Great 

features and the wraiths of the maidens and hunters he has Spirit, am er he rent the granite dome where Tis-sa-ack 

trapped on I s at the head of the fall and prayed, and filled the dry basin of Wai-ack, the Mirror Lake, 

d down to destruction. Po-ho-no is known was gone, pursued by Tu-tock-ah-nu-lah, blinded 

by the down that fluttered from the wings of the goddess, 
feathers fell, up sprang white violets, which 

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HOTELS AND CAMPS 



Sentinel Hotel. J. B. Cook, Proprietor. Rates from 
$3.00 to $4.00 per day, $20.00 to $25.00 per week. 
The hotel is electric-lighted and steam-heated throughout. 



Wells-Fargo Express, 
office, barber shop an 
hotel. Open all the y< 

Camp Lost Arrow. J. B. 
per day, at the foot < 
grove of oaks. Miss 
Open during summer s( 

Camp Curry. D. A. Curn 



nd postoffice, 
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TABLE of ALTITUDES 
ABOVE FLOOR of VALLEY 



WATERFALLS 



Bridal 

Vernal 

Nevada 
Royal Arch 

Yosemite: 

r Fall 
Middle Fall 
Lower Fall 

Ribbon 



940 feet 



400 feet 
3300 feet 



POINTS, PI 
Three Graces . . . . . .34 

Cathedral Rock 2661 

i 2~> 

78 feet 

Sentinel Rock 3100 feet 

Sentinel Dome . . .412 

Glacier Point . .32 

Mt. Starr King 5 1 

2000 feet 
Half D me . . 5000 

me 37 

38 

Eagle Peak 39 

itan 3300 feet 

1 2 

Round 1 ower ...... 2400 feet 

i^est .... 

Yosemite Point ...... 3220 feet 

Floor ol /vation 



MEADOWS 



MT STARR KING 




MAP OF YOSEMITE VALLEY 



In 



2 VTHE THREE GR/ 

3j 

4 BRIDAL VEIL FALLS 

5 LEANING TOWER 

6 MERCED RIVER 

7 WAWONA ROAD 

8 EL PORTAL ROAD 

9 RIBBON FALLS 

10 EL CAPITAN 

11 I 

12 ■{ THE THREE BROTHERS 

CATHEDRAL SPIRES 
SENTINEL ROCK 
UNION POINT 
SENTINEL DOME 
GLACIER POINT 
YOSEMITE FALLS 
ROYAL ARCHES 
WASHINGTON COLUMN 
NORTH DOME 
BASKET DOME 
MT. WATKINS 
HALF DOME 
MIRROR LAKE 
VERNAL FALLS 
NEVADA FALLS 
LIBERTY CAP 
ILLILOUETTE FALLS 
MT. STARR KING 
LITTLE YOSEMITE 
CLOUDS' REST 
TENAYA CANYON 
SENTINEL HOTEL 
CAMP AHWAHNEE 
CAMP CURRY 
CAMP LOST ARROW 




BIRD'S-EYE V1EV 




THE "GRIZZL 



The Big Trees (Sequoia Gigantea) are found 
only in the Sierra Nevada Range, at an altitude 
of from 3,500 to 8,000 feet. They are the 
largest and oldest living things in the world. Their 
only near relative is the Sequoia Sempervirens, 
found in the Coast Range of California. The Big 
Trees of the Sierra Nevada grow to an altitude of 
340 feet, and have a base circumference of over 
one hundred feet. The bark sometimes exceeds 
forty inches in thickness. The Big Tree unques- 
tionably antedated the Christian era. The age is 
determined by counting the annular rings from the 
center, each ring indicating a year's growth. When 
John Muir, best known of California scientists, 
carefully examined a tree burned part way through, 
it was found to be over 3,000 years of age. 

It is believed that many of them greatly exceed 
that age, and Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 
University, thinks there is no reason why the oldest 
of them should not have been living seven or eight 
thousand years. The trunk of the Big Tree is 
columnar, fluted perpendicularly, and in appear- 
ance and color varies from a very light brown to 
cinnamon. The older trees usually have little 
lohage for the first hundred feet, save feathery 
The rule is not absolute, however, and 
some of the larger trees, especially those in exposed 
branch near the earth. The limbs reach 
an enormous size, one, eighty feet from the ground 
on the Grizzly Giant in the Mariposa Grove, 
a diameter of nearly seven feet. The best 
known the Calaveras, South Park, 

1 uolumnc, Mariposa and Fresno, ranging from 
thirty trees in the 7 uolumne to thirteen hundred 
in the Calaveras. But along the Kings, Kaweah 
and 1 ule rivers the groves become forests, and the 
■ distributed by thousands over wide 
it being estimated that in the Giant Forest 
alone there are over six thousand trees with a 
diameter equaling or exceeding fifteen feet each, 
■est known of all the groves, however, is the 
Marip' fitful daylight stage 

with forests all the 
is maintained during the sum- 
and the well conducted resort at 
; the visitors. 



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